The Revolution is Love

What’s love got to do with the Occupy movement?

posted Feb 14, 2012

"An economist says 'more for you is less for me.' But the lover knows
that more for you is more for me too. If you love somebody, then their
happiness is your happiness. Their pain is your pain. Your sense of self
expands to include other beings.That's love. Love is the expansion of the self to include the other. And that's a different kind of revolution. There's no one to fight—there's no evil to fight. There's no 'other' in this revolution.— Charles Eisenstein

This clip is from the forthcoming feature-length documentary Occupy Love from Ian MacKenzie and Velcrow Ripper.

“Our communities need us—we are all leaders.” A message for the powers that were.

Media reports focus on the few acts of vandalism and violence, but the
majority of occupiers at Oakland’s General Strike succeeded in a
peaceful shutdown of Oakland’s banks and port.

Charles Eisenstein: For a multitude of reasons, we need to need each other.

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